Helen Marie Yenney

Helen Marie Yenney, age 95 of Savanna, Illinois, died on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at Mercy Medical Center North, Clinton. A funeral service will be held at 2:00 p.m., Sunday, July 3, 2011 at the Law-Jones Funeral Home, Savanna. A visitation will be held from 6:00-8:00 p.m., Saturday, July 2, 2011 at the Jones-Funeral Home, Savanna. Burial will take place in the Center Hill Cemetery, Mount Carroll. Memorials may be given to the Trinity Lutheran Church, Lanark in Helen’s memory.
Helen was born on August 24, 1915, the daughter of Gottlieb and Augusta (Wink) Schultz in Milledgeville, Illinois. Helen attended the North Otter Creek grade school in rural Lanark, Illinois. She attended the Lanark High School, graduating with the class of 1933. After graduation, Helen attended Normal Teaching College in DeKalb, Illinois, graduating in 1935. She was united in marriage to Donald R. Yenney on May 6, 1939, at the Lutheran Parsonage in Clinton, Iowa. Helen and Donald were married for forty-six years before Donald passed away in 1986.
Helen taught for four years in rural schools, teaching one year at Chamber Grove in Ogle County and three years at Pleasant Hill in Carroll County. Helen loved to teach and continued to tutor for many years. Helen was confirmed into the Lutheran Faith in 1931 and was a lifelong member of the Trinity Lutheran Church, Lanark.
Helen will be dearly missed by two daughter, Virginia (Bill) Thulen of Savanna and Carol Kerkove of Savanna; two sons, Marvin (Mary) Yenney of Savanna and Stanley Yenney of Savanna; fifteen grandchildren and twenty-five great grandchildren.
Helen was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Donald; one son, Arnold Yenney; and one sister, Mable Schultz